The 24-year-old tennis player, who previously “sneaked” into the VIP of the tournament and served as the ball catcher, dreams of hitting the ball against the main candidate for the title. His story and when he was a “pirate ship entertainer.”
Gone are those times when you would enter the belly of the Buenos Aires Lawn Tennis Club with a purpose “sneak into VIP”, after serving as ball boy of the tournament now, years of hard work, this was the big surprise. From the ball catcher to the main character; or a tennis player, rather. Camilo Ugo Carabellithat boy who went to the estate to help -and in the process ‘sin’ with some traces of youth-, tonight he will try to take down the leading candidate for the title at the IEB+ Argentina Open: Carlos Alcaraz.
“When I was a ball boy I was at the club all day, Martín (Jaite) had to take me out of the players’ room”, The Witcher recognized with a laugh the conversation on the ATP portal. That young man everyone recognized the more “quilombero” in BALCas he knows how to define himself, now shows that he is the most “relax” of a working group led by Carlos Berlocq in just over eight months.
In the same silence he faces what will be one of the biggest challenges of his career: facing the world number two in the round of 16 of the tournament in which he was born, as if it were not enough to already have two Grand Slams under his belt and destined to enter the Olympus of the greats.
“It’s a prize”this is how Carabelli lives, “no pressure”, because Jaite’s now uncontrollable ball catcher is fulfilling a dream. The dream of entering the field and being the performer of a night that will capture the attention of those who come to the venue located in Olleros 1560. “You’re not going to sneak out, now you’ve earned it”, are the words that the director of the IEB+ Argentina Open dedicated to him last year, and that can be brought up again.
“I can imagine what Carlitos’ fight will be like… it’s shocking”The Witcher throbbed at a press conference, strung together an eight-game winning streak, with assignment. More than the 20-year-old star he will get on the other side of the net, the number 134 in the ranking comes with the credentials to at least fight the battle against who will start his path to defend 2023 that crown.
It’s been clean: two weeks ago he won the Piracicaba Challenger (fifth of his career), passed the Qualy competition in Buenos Aires after defeating Jaume Munar and Hugo Dellien in succession, and then made his debut by -sweep Juan Pablo Varillas in two sets (7 -6). (5) and 6-4), which means his second victory at the ATP level (the first was at Roland Garros 2022, against Aslan Karatsev).
When Ugo Carabelli was “entertainer of a pirate ship”
For the Argentine, sport has always been his lighthouse. The ground wire since I was a child. Although at that time it was not only tennis: also, in that growth phase, there was soccer, a sport that he left because “It’s a kind of scream”. What many don’t know is that while he was forging his first weapons to become an elite athlete, he took advantage of his free time to pursue other types of unusual activities. For example? Be a pirate ship entertainer on the beaches of Florianópolis.
“It’s my family’s business, they give boat rides, and when I was a kid I loved to dress up and have fun and entertain people… now I start looking at pictures of that and I can’t believe it, it’s crazy “, Carabelli admitted with a mixture of blush and nostalgia at the same time.
In the end, destiny led him not to follow his grandfather’s path to the ocean or to kick a ball, but to use a racket at that same tennis club, three blocks from his house, that ‘raised’ him. This Thursday, starting at 6:30 pm, Carabelli doesn’t have to sneak in but it’s up to him to stand in front of the Wonder child and spend a difficult afternoon/evening. A fighter of his breed will not lack confidence, that is He will surely come to BALC on his usual bicycle and be as energetic as that “quilombero” ball boy. that once, in his wildest dreams, he imagined himself playing at La Catedral.
Source: Tycsports
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